Following on from this blog post in April the Fisher family decided that rather than sit on a beach or around a hotel pool we were going to do a staycation this year.
We decided that we wanted to really focus on our kids, to maximise the quality time we were spending with them, and decided a bit of old fashioned fun was exactly what we needed.
Our to have started re-lookin at this list but also to create their own. A couple of activities appeared on both of their lists, to stay up to see the sunset, to be up to watch a sunrise, to see what animals come out at night, and to eat something they have caught!
Loved reading the list of the outdoor activities children could be doing rather than sitting inside on the computer or stuck in front of the TV.
Whilst I moan at my two for this at times, I’m quite pleased that Hannah (10) and Alex (6) can cross off a range of the activities. Whilst chatting about this at breakfast today I was delighted to hear from Hannah that she knew all about the list, then she confided she had seen it on Newsround!
The list is below, how many can your children tick off, how many as parents can we think back to and remember doing?
3. Camp out in the wild
4. Build a den
5. Skim a stone
6. Run around in the rain
7. Fly a kite
8. Catch a fish with a net
9. Eat an apple straight from a tree
10. Play conkers
11. Throw some snow
12. Hunt for treasure on the beach
13. Make a mud pie
14. Dam a stream
15. Go sledging
16. Bury someone in the sand
17. Set up a snail race
18. Balance on a fallen tree
19. Swing on a rope swing
20. Make a mud slide
21. Eat blackberries growing in the wild
22. Take a look inside a tree
23. Visit an island
24. Feel like you’re flying in the wind
25. Make a grass trumpet
26. Hunt for fossils and bones
27. Watch the sun wake up
28. Climb a huge hill
29. Get behind a waterfall
30. Feed a bird from your hand
31. Hunt for bugs
32. Find some frogspawn
33. Catch a butterfly in a net
34. Track wild animals
35. Discover what’s in a pond
36. Call an owl
37. Check out the crazy creatures in a rock pool
38. Bring up a butterfly
39. Catch a crab
40. Go on a nature walk at night
41. Plant it, grow it, eat it
42. Go wild swimming
43. Go rafting
44. Light a fire without matches
45. Find your way with a map and compass
46. Try bouldering
47. Cook on a campfire
48. Try abseiling
49. Find a geocache
50. Canoe down a river
My kids have done quite a lot of these but it did prompt us to go out and build a den at the weekend! I have watched too many episodes of Silent Witness though and got very worried when we were rooting for branches in undergrowth.